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<br /> ..11 <br /> Carnival: Typically educational seminars will have a fee, <br /> but this is one in which the future of the city is <br /> taking place or being formed to where you have <br /> citizens that are participating at a this level <br /> rather than being educated. Although I agree that <br /> we should recoup some of our costs directly from <br /> the participants, we need to meet somewhere in <br /> between there. <br /> Sackett: I suggest we have a scholarship program and if <br /> the person is willing to come in and sign the form <br /> that says they make less than $25,000 a year and <br /> can not pay the $25.00, the city will agree to <br /> cover them. I also think we need to support the <br /> City Administrator in her attempts to put together <br /> a Futures Conference. <br /> Hornbostel: I have had two or three calls on this, and one <br /> comment that the lady made to me was that you are <br /> going to charge me $25.00 for me to give you my <br /> opinion. If we had charged for the first <br /> conference, this would not have taken people by <br /> surprise. <br /> Szymanski: I agree with Councilman Sackett. I think the <br /> scholarship fund is the way to go. No one needs <br /> to know who the parties are. <br /> Howard: Although I'm not necessarily against the idea or <br /> the concept of the scholarship fund, I just have <br /> one point of unease. I don't know if anyone in <br /> this room has had to go up and ask for money to <br /> participate in something, but it is a very <br /> degrading situation. I want people to come and <br /> not feel that they have been degraded. I would <br /> prefer we have a situation where you can bring <br /> your lunch or you can, in advance, request lunch <br /> through the city. That way no one has to feel <br /> they had to go begging to the city for the right <br /> to speak to the city's government. <br /> Mayor Fauson: We are funding the conference by $3,200. We could <br /> ask for a donation instead. I don't think the <br /> city should be funding the entire process. That <br /> was not agreed upon when we first designed the <br /> conference, we did agree to the $3,200. <br /> Sackett moved to continue with the information that has already <br /> been published and the $25.00 registration fee, but develop a <br /> simple form that people could sign indicating that if they are <br /> unable to pay the registration fee and they do not make more than <br /> $25,000 a year, they can get that registration fee waived in the <br /> form of a scholarship, however, this needs to be done ahead of <br /> time. <br /> 4 <br />